Friday, October 22,1999
The University Daily Kansan
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Cyclones could be 'Hawks' remedy
By Shown Hutchinson sports@kansan.com Kansan sportswriter
When the Kansas volleyball team takes on Iowa State at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Horegis Family Athletics Center, it will be a perfect opportunity for the Jayhawks to snap their three-match losing streak.
Iowa State is in last place in the Big 12 Conference with an 0-9 record and has lost four straight against Kansas. The Cyclones also have lost 13 straight matches overall, have been swept five consecutive times and haven't won close. a Sept. 4 match against
Missouri
Kansas City.
Still, don't
talk to the
Jay hawks
about overlooking anybody.
"Granted
that they're 0-9, they're still a quality team," said Kansas junior outside hitter Amy Maity. "We're still going to have to play well and be competitive. We have a good chance to win as long as we do what we need to do."
The Jayhawks will have to contain Iowa State outside hitter Sheila Lopez, who has 149 kills and 108 digs on the year. The Cyclones also are led by setter Sara Stribe, who paces the Cyclones with 236 assists.
"There isn't a lot of significance in their season as far as their (record) goes," said Kansas coach Ray Beach迪. "They have some good moments, but they just haven't been able to put together
a complete match against a really,
really good team.
"When you look at the standings, a win over Iowa State is as significant as a win over Nebraska," he said.
A Kansas win would signal the end to its longest losing streak of the season, which has dropped its record to 13-7 overall and 4-5 in the Big 12. The streak started with a loss at then-No. 13 Kansas State, continued with a loss to No. 16 Texas A&M at Allen Fieldhouse, and expanded with a loss at No. 21 Colorado Wednesday night.
Tomorrow will mark the first time the Jayhawks have played in the center since an Oct. 9 victory against Baylor. The Jayhawks own a 5-3 record this season in their home facility and have drawn an average of 991 fans in the last two matches.
One key stat in those losses: All came when the Jayhawks were playing away from the Horejsi Center.
"We're definitely ready to come home to Horejsi," Myatt said. "When the crowd gets involved, it sort of builds you up." Volleyball note
Senior middle blocker Amanda Reves registered 13 kills on Wednesday night in the loss to Colorado, giving her 1,097 for her career and sole possession of third place on Kansas' all-time kills list.
The Jayhawks all-time killer leaders is Judy Desch, who belted 1,146 kills from 1984-87. Reves is averaging 13.4 kills per match this season, and at her current pace would give her first place during the Nov. 3 match against No. 13 Nebraska.
Edited by Brad Hallier
Bound for Boston
Rowers to be pitted against top teams in weekend regatta
By Shawn Linenberger sports@kansan.com
Kansas sportwriter
The Kansas rowing team, though, will jump in with the big fish right away.
Most college athletic teams start their seasons by scheduling teams of lesser caliber.
Kansas will be in Boston tomorrow and Sunday for the Head of the Charles Regatta, the largest regatta in the world. The field is loaded
Brown, Virginia and California-Berkeley finished 1-2-3 at the NCAA Championships last year. The Danish Rowing Federation, Rowing Canada and U.S. Rowing are also in the regatta.
Earlier this fall, Kansas, which is ranked 22nd, competed at the Head of the Ohio Regatta near Pittsburgh with six of last year's NCAA Championship qualifiers, including Brown and Virginia. The Jayhawks finished ninth out of 21 boats in Pittsburgh. Last year, at the Head of the Charles, Kansas finished 17 out of 59 boats, a major improvement compared to 1997, when the Jayhawks came in 39 out of 50 boats.
Wisconsin, Michigan and Michigan State, Top-25 teams that were at the Head of the Ohio, will be in Boston this weekend, along with other Top-25 teams, including Stanford, Southern California and
Senior captain Keesha Cravens said that she thought the stiff competition early on would be good for the team.
"It's good that we don't have that slacking period," Cravens said. "We need someone to push us, to challenge us."
Kansas is positioned 14th at the start the race. Positions are determined by last year's finish. Teams that didn't race last year are positioned randomly after that.
The Head of the Charles Regatta, which is 3.25 miles long, is one of the most difficult courses in the world, winding around sharp turns and under bridges.
Princeton.
Luckily for the Jayhawks, they have some fan support, even in
"We're still a novelty.
"Galvin said.
"There are a lot of people cheering for us because of the basketball tradition."
Boston.
They've heard of the Jayhawks. There's also an amazing amount of alumni there, too."
Galvin also said people joked with the team about being from Kansas.
"They would ask, You have water in Kansas?" she said.
The Jayhawks are competing in the Club Eight Division on Saturday and the Championship Eight Division on Sunday.
The team will visit Harvard Square and Northeastern University's Boathouse in Boston. Northeastern is Galvin's alma mater. The team also will have dinner tomorrow evening at Galvin's parents' house in nearby Andover, Mass.
After the sightseeing,
the Javhawk will be all business.
"Our goal is to place in the top 10," Cravens said. "We just need to race our race."
Edited by Julia Nicholson
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Missouri struggles to find new producers
By Michael Rigg sports@kansan.com
Kansas writer/scripper
The 1999 Missouri football team has been struggling to replace its bread-and-butter producers from the past two seasons: quarterback Corby Jones and running back Devin West, both departed.
Behind Jones and West, Missouri went to two consecutive bowls and had similar lofty expectations coming into this season.
However, this season has been a struggle for the Tigers and coach Larry Smith. Missouri was quick out of the gate with a 2-0 start, but has since gone 1-3 with a victory against Memphis and losses to Nebraska, Colorado and Iowa State. The recent record sent the Tigers reeling back to .500 with a
Tomorrow, the Tigers can start the upward ascension again with a win against the team they currently share the basement with Kansas.
3-3 record and left them tied at the bottom of the Big 12 Conference's northern division with an 0-3 conference record.
This week, Smith stressed the importance of having his team focused on the Jayhawks, not on the Tigers mediocre start.
— that's the Kansas game," Smith said. "We are still an average football team because we're 3-3. I think we have the chance to be a good football team, but it has to be week-to-week and team-to-team."
"We have to put the last game behind us and focus on one thing
loss of starting quarterback Kirk Farmer, who broke his leg in the first half of the game against the Cyclones last week. Farmer's
injury means Smith will the full time quarter
Smith's team is coping with the
pass the full-time quarterback duties to sophomore Jim Dougherty, who previously rotated with Farmer behind center. Dougherty's backup against Kansas will be freshman Justin Gage.
"The injury puts a lot of pressure on Jim and stretches our quarterback ranks very thin because our backup quarterback was at Jefferson City High School last year," Smith said. "But Jim will go in the game and do things to win."
lineman was a preseason All-American and is a candidate for the Outland Trophy, awarded to the nation's best offensive lineman.
Smith can breathe easier because Dougherty will be protected by center Rob Riti. The
Defensively, Missouri boasts standout defensive end Justin Smith and cornerback Carlos Posey, both considered by the Big 12 media as two of the conference's best defenders. While Posey has been a force all season in the Tiger secondary, the lineman scares Kansas coach Terry Allen more.
Kickoff is 1 p.m. tomorrow at Memorial Stadium.
Edited by Chris Hopkins
"Justin Smith plays on every down," Allen said. "He's not very fun to play against, but he sure is fun to watch."
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